Leon Fregins Gaudet

• General Notes
  • Leon Fregins, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1823, married Émilie, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Cantrelle, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1845.  Their son Léon Firmin was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1847, Charles Alphonse in May 1849, and François Ernest in November 1851.
    
    Leon Fregins was the son of François-Louis Gaudet, son of Louis Gaudet and Marie Hébert,born at Nantes, France, in c1773, followed his family to Louisiana aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He and his family were counted on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension in 1788 and 1791.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Caissie dit Roger, at Ascension in July 1796.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near his parents.  Their daughters married into the Falgout and Hebert families.  François remarried to Marcelline, daughter of German Creole Charles Falgout of St. Charles Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1816.  Their daughters married into the Evans, Lacapere, Lesseps, and Tucker families.  François-Louis, called François, père, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1831; he was 58 years old.  His first succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the month of his death, and a petition for a new inventory was filed at the same courthouse in July 1835.  François's three older sons by his first wife married three of his second wife's sisters!  All but one of François's eight sons married, and seven of them created families of their own in Assumption, Lafourche Interior, and Terrebonne parishes.  A remarkable number of François's descendants married first cousins.  One of them even married his niece.